![]() ![]() RHYTHM, number one one the charts in 1953, has a scoop sound, TAMBERINE, "Mama" big hit Etta James most successful female artists on Chess company, soulful powerful and beautiful, shes the bridge between R&B and Rock, "At last" Big Mama Thornton (1926-84) began career on Black Vaudville Circuit, played multiple instruments, blues legend, "Hound Dog" number 1 on chart for 7 weeks represented female power Alan Freed "Pied Piper of Rock n roll" DJ champion of RNB, hes knocking down racial integration, very succesfful radio show moves to NYC in 1954, Moon Dog House (name of show, after a street performer in cleveland) Bill Haley starts out in western swing, first group called "Saddle Men", switch his name and drop cow boy image, new name "The Comets", 1954 got signed to DECA, "Shake Raddle Roll" Bill Haley and the Comets ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK, first rock n roll record to become a #1 hit, 22 million copies world wide Chuck Berry influenced by bill haley, grew up in st. Not on your life Israel's Guardian will never doze or. He won't let you stumble, your Guardian God won't fall asleep. Psalm 121 (The Message) I look up to the mountains does my strength come from mountains No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains. Cecil Gant "I wonder" nasal sound Charles Brown most successful blues crooner, handsome and dapper, "Driffin blues" Blues crooner style Nat King Cole, Cecil Gant, Charles Brown Robert Johnson "KING OF THE DELTA BLUES", "Cross Road Blues" Muddy Waters mississippi, Delta blues gritter, SLIDE guitar, Stony boy willamson (popularized the microphone, "hoochie coochie man" Houlin Wolf missississippi, distinct vocal timbre (raspy), love/hate relationship with muddy waters, "Black door man" The Dominoes moved away from pop sound, naughty lyrics, "sixty minute man", number 1 for 14 weeks, "Have Mercy Baby" The Cords pop,1-6-4-5 (cord tones), circle progression, most common chord progression sound of the 50s Johnie Ray only white performer to top the R&B charts from 1946-1956, post war (Crroners)->R&B performers, "Cry" Ruth Brown most popular female black vocalists in American between 1951-1954, she rules R&B for a while, MRS. Songs of High Worship, Praise and Deliverance to help you keep the right focus and make it through each day.
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